Shock mount failure

[david brady]

Don,



If you send a pic to Ridewell they may give you a new piece.



The curb side upper shock mount is different due to the location

of the panhard rod frame pivot.



David Brady

'02 LXi, NC







Don Bradner wrote:

I went in and looked from the underside when I didn't know what
the problem was, but my best look at things came with blind camera
shots over the top of the tires. I took many pictures at various
angles, and also did this on the passenger side. This is an example of
the way that side looks, and demonstrates the significant differences: http://www.arcatapet.net/image/goodmount.jpg



On 2/18/2009 at 3:13 PM Leroy Eckert wrote:



>I agree David. When it dries out around here I am gonna take a look
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>mine..

>Leroy Eckert

>1990 WB-40 Smoke N Mirrors

>Dahlonega, GA

>Royale Conversion

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>--- On Wed, 2/18/09, David Brady <"dmb993%40earthlink.net">
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>From: David Brady <"dmb993%40earthlink.net">

>Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Shock mount failure

>To: "WanderlodgeForum%40yahoogroups.com"

>Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 5:51 PM

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>everyone, it's time to crawl under your bus to check the steer

>axle, street side shock mount for cracks.

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>David

>'02 LXi, NC

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>From: Don Bradner

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>Sent: Feb 18, 2009 5:47 PM

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>To: WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com

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>Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Shock mount failure

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> I'm not sure it is worse than others. The thing is I don't

>think anyone has shown theirs pre-fix before. If you look at Pete

>Masterson's http://homepage.
mac.com/aeonix1/ Sites-Pages/ Image2.html you

>will see that the tear is almost identical in location and scope as
mine.

>In the Bumpersbird album I can't really tell where the tear was
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>may not have torn off).

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>On 2/18/2009 at 5:24 PM David Brady wrote:

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>>That's gotta be the most

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>>severe case of the dreaded shock mount crack that I've ever

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>Don Bradner

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>90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"

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>My location: www.bbirdmaps. com/user2. cfm?user= 1

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